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[Reprinted from the New-England Flistorical and Genealogical Register for July, lOOfi.] 



EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF CONSTANTINE 
HARDY, IN THE CROWN POINT EXPEDITION 

*' OF 1759. 

( 'nininiiiiicated bv Charles A. Fi.agg, E.sf|., of Washington, I). ( '. 

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The writer of this diary was born in Westborough, Mass., 6 Mar., 
1736-7. Enlisting in Apr., 1759, his company evidently formed a 
part of the 2d battalion of Col. Ruggles's Worcester County regi- 
ment. 

Hardy passed the remainder of his days in Westborough, and 
died there 16 Mar., 1777. By his marriage with Jemima Brigham of 
Shrewsbury (intention recorded 15 Jan., 1763), he had two sons 
and five daughters. The elder son, Constantine, removed to Upton, 
and later to Shelburne, Mass. The latter's flrreat-ffranddauefhter. 
Miss Elizabeth Hardy, of Shelburne, is the present owner of the diary. 
This consisted originally of a book of twenty-two leaves, but only 
twelve and part of another of the leaves are now remaining. . 



April the 2 1759. 1 iiilested iii to his maiestys Seruice to Seruc my 
King and Cuntry Under Capten Sepheu Maynard* 

May the 10. 1759. 1 Past muster at Worcester Before Capt. Whelock 
and then the Next time we Past muster at Springfield Before a helanderf 
officer and the Next Day we was ordered to march and we marched as fur 
as the Sig of the Black horse and tlien we halted and then we was ordered 
to march from there to go ouer the Riuer and we Stad for our billingtin we 
stod till Corl Ruglst Came out and then we marched ouer the Riuer and 
Lay in an oiil house one JSJight and all the Next Day till about Sundown 
and then orders Came for us to march ouer to westfield and from theire 
wee went to Glascho§ and the Next Day we went throw the greenwoods 
and then from thir we went to Sheffield their we Staid til monday and then 
went to go to Cauter h()ok|| and Lay in the woods one Night and the Next 
Day we went in to Canter Hook and tarried their one Night and the Next 
Day we ariued Safe to (xreen l)ush and tarried their one Night and the 

* Undoubtedly Capt. Stephen ^faynard, a prominent man of Westborongh. 
t Highlander, or Scotch. 

X Timothy Ruggles of Hardwick, colonel and brigadier general in this war, and 
later a prominent tory in Revolutionary days. 
ji Blandford, which had earlier borne the name of Glasgow. 
ji Kinderhook. 



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Next day we went in to Albany and we went Up onto the Hil aboue the 
Sitty and their we Lay about a fort net or three weeks. 

Staats Van Sanstoord opposit to the Kings Coot of Arms Eight huts 
Lef hear Albony June : the : 1 Ano Domine 1759 

Jnne the 18. 1759. Coneticut Jerzy Blews* and the Royal Scotch From 
Ford Edward to go to the Lake. 

June the 20. we Sot out to go to the Lak and at Night wee arined Safe 
at the Lake their was Six or seueu thousand got to the Lake that Night. 

June the 24. mr for Bushesf text was in Mathew the 5 Chapter and 
the Forty forth Verse. 

June y" 28. all the Batallion Went out to Shooting Plattoons and We 
Shot three Rounds a Fiece and then Brock off 

July the 2. the French and Endions Came upon a Party of Jarzy Blews 
that was apealing Bark and kild and Took Eleueu they Came in open 
Sight of the Camp their Rallied out Maier Rogersf with a Number of 
the Rangers and they Pursued after them and they Came in Sight of them 
Jest as they got in to their Battoes and So they got away. 

July ye 2. [Duplicating the last entry] there Came fourteen Batooes 
from tantrabogus Parte of the Way to the Lakes to the Camps and then 
there Came about Twenty Indians vpon a party of the Jerzy Blews of Eigh- 
teen men and killed and Scalped and Took thirteen out of Eighteen and they 
Came Within one Hundred and fifty Rod of the Camps in open Sight of 
us all and we Dont know that We killed any one of them But the Raiugers 
folowed hard after them and tliey had got into their Batooes and had got 
off about twenty Rods from the Land and So got away 

July the 9. 1759. The Reu. Mr. Forbush Preached a Sermon From 
the first of Samuel the Seuetentnth Chapter and the Forty fifth Verse. 

July the 12 : 1759. Mier Rogers Went out with about Five hundred 
men with him and a Cannon or two he went Down the Lake as P^xr as the 
fii'st Narrows and He Came upjion a Party of french and Endions they 
met and they had a Small Scurmey and they Cild one Serient and wounded 
one man more but we dont know as we Cilled any of them but it Looks 
Very Likely that they Cilled Some of them for we Shot one of their Ijat- 
toes in two and Droue them and took a Small Brest work and Burnt it up 
and then Came of and l^eft them and he got in the Same Night. 

July the IS: 1759. There was a man Shot to Deth for Desertion 
amongst the regulars. 

July the: 14: 1759. the first Battallion Came up to the Lake and 
Joyned the Second Battallion and their was a Ridgment or a Part of a 
Ridgment of Coneticots and Some Jerzey Blews. 

July the 15 : 1759. The Rev. mr. Forbush Preached a Sermon from 
Jeremiah the Forty Eight Chapter and the tenth Veirce. 

July the 17. their was a french flag of truce Came in here and what 
they Came in for I know not. 

The Eighteenth Day. their was a Number of men went out to Shoot 
of their guns and their was Very hot fighering for Some Considerable time 

July the 2L the army all im barct to Set out for tiantorogo and we 
got with in three or four miles of the Landing Place and then Lay upon 
our ores all Night and a teedious Night we had and in the morning the 
Rangers and Conl : Willems Ridgment and the Second Battallion of 

* The New Jersey troops weie commonly designated Jersey bines. 

+ Rev. Elli Forbes of North Brookfield, chaplain of Ruggles's regiment. 

X M.nj. Robert Rogers, the commander of the celebrated Rangers. 



Bregidear Riigles Ridgmeut all Landed upon the East Side of the Lake 
and we marched Ronml upon the mountains and came In by the mils and 
then the Second Battalion marched up By the P^ast side of the Lake 
against their brest work and Built a Brest woork annd then Cap : Maynard 
with about Fifty men went upon the Rocks upon a Point of Land wheir 
Lake george and the South Bay Emtyed in to Lake Cham Plain and their 
they built another Smal Brest woork wheir they Cept a guard of twenty 
fine men 

Angst the 5 1751). The Second Batalion of Brigedar Rugilses Ridgment 
Set out for Crown Point and about half way between Sundown and Dark 
w^ all a Riued Safe at Crown Point and then we had to on Lod our Bat- 
toes and then we marched upon the grass wheir the gras was fit to mough 
and Canpt Down that Night Some of us Pitched our tents and Some of 
them Neuer Stood to Pitch their Tents But Lay Right Down upon the 
grass till morning 

August the G: 1759. We was ordered to pitch our tents in order 

Crownpoint Avgust the 10 1759. Recevd a Letter from home Dated 
July the 25 Anadomine 1759 

Crownpoint August ye 2(3 : 1759. the Reverend mr. forbush went over 
to Col. AVhitings Ridgments to Preach for all our men was gou out of 
the Camps and he had None to Preach to he Dident Preach to None of 
ourn onely what went to that Ridgment and that want mayny only a few 
Sick ones that want able to go upon feteague 

Crownpoint September 2o. the Ren Mr Preached a Sermon 

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